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Fear, Faith, and Other F-Words
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(author)Gendering Mormon Studies—At Last! Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
Christine TalbotWomen’s and gender studies emerged out of the women’s and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, movements the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vigorously opposed. The so-called New Mormon History flourished around the same time, opening the field to new approaches
Fear, Faith, and Other F-Words
T BoydPodcast version of this piece. I’m sitting in the bishop’s office. My dress is slightly damp, but I can’t determine whether the moisture is a result of the snowstorm or sweat beading beneath the cotton.…
Unpacking Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Mormonism Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Alison HalfordInevitably at some point, due to structural white patriarchal privilege and a central and abiding concern with discrete gendered bodies and heteronormative relations, the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will…
Sisterhood and the Divine Feminine Twila Newey, Sylvia
Rebecca BatemanLike a mother opening her arms to embrace her children, the span of mountains and trees that look over my childhood home in Salt Lake City extend to the south and cradle also the homes…
Mette Harrison, The Women’s Book of Mormon: Volume One
Adam MclainLavina Fielding Anderson, Mercy Without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church
Claudia L. BushmanBeauty in the Irreversible Lisa Van Orman Hadley. Irreversible Things
Sarah Nickel MooreJudging by its length, Irreversible Things is the kind of book that I should have been able to finish in a couple hours. Perhaps one evening, after the kids had gone to bed, I could curl up…
The Gebirah and Female Power
Amber RichardsonTipping the Scales: LDS Women and Power in Recent Scholarship
Charlotte Hansen TerryA Rising Generation: Women in Power in Young Adult Novels Jo Cassidy. Good Girls Stay Quiet Emily King. Before the Broken Star Julie Berry. Lovely War
Katherine CowleyThe Order of Eve: A Matriarchal Priesthood
Kyra N. KrakosElder Oaks clarified that priesthood is the authority and power of God. By extension, that must also be the authority and power of our Heavenly Mother. I decided to give it a name. Not the…
The Stories We Tell—And What They Tell Us
Heather SundahlThe Power of an Unbroken Woman
Joy Sitawa RichardsThe Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Utah
Amanda Hendrix-KomotoIn this essay, I discuss this history, present evidence that Latter-day Saint men sold abortion pills in the late nineteenth century, and argue that it is likely some Latter-day Saint women took them in an…
Feminism, Polygamy, and Murder John Bennion. An Unarmed Woman.
Helynne Hollstein HansenJohn Bennion’s work is set in the late 1880s and focuses on plural marriage through the lens of a murder mystery.
Roundtable: When Feminists Excommunicate
Mette Ivie HarrisonRoundtable: Mormon Women and the Anatomy of Belonging
Neylan McBaineRoundtable: Shifting Boundaries of Feminist Theology: What Have We Learned?
Maxine HanksA Double Portion: An Intertextual Reading of Hannah (1 Samuel 1–2) and Mark’s Greek Woman (Mark 7:24–30)
Julie M. SmithThe Physical Process of Creation
Carrel Hilton SheldonDiscovering the Woman’s Exponent
Susan Whitaker KohlerKey Turning Points in Exponent II’s History
Nancy Tate DredgeExponent II: Early Decisions
Claudia L. BushmanA Laurel’s First-Night Fantasies
Theric JepsonListening to Each Other: Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience: A Mormon/Humanist Dialogue Edited by George D. Smith
Florien J. WineriterUntitled
(author)A Mormon Mother: An Autobiography by Annie Clark Tanner
Charlotte Cannon JohnstonBiography of an Indian Latter-day Saint Women: Me and Mine: The Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa as told to Louise Udall
Grace F. ArringtonLyrics and Love in Orderville: A review of the music of The Orders is Love by Lex de Azevedo
A. Laurence LyonFiddlin’ Around in Orderville, or, A Mormon on the Roof: The Order is Love by Carol Lynn Pearson
Richard CracroftThe Mattress
Georgina Alvillar WibertThe Courtship
Patricia Rasmussen EatonSnowflake Girl
Louise Larson ComishTriad
Mary Lythgoe BradfordMy Temple
Blanche BerryThe Perennial Harlot
Blanche BerryFriends
Blanche BerryDevotion to Sam
Blanche BerryCanyon Country
Ina Jespersen HobsonUntitled
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(author)Untitled
(author)Untitled
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(author)Mormon Country Women: With an Introduction by Gordon Thomasson
Dorothea LangeUntitled
(author)Mother’s Day, 1971
Lucybeth RamptonDirt: A Compendium of Household Wisdom
Shirley GeeSingle Voices: Thoughts on Living Alone
(author)Single Voices: A Candid and Uncensored Interview with a Mormon Career Girl
(author)Single Voices: Journal Jottings
(author)Single Voices: A Letter Home
(author)Somewhere Inbetween
Grethe Ballif PetersonUntitled
(author)Belle Spafford: A Sketch
JoAnn Woodruff BairA Survey of Women General Board Members
Dixie Snow HuefnerAll Children Are Alike Unto Me
Almera Anderson RomneyThe Mormon Woman and Priesthood Authority: The Other Voice
Cheryll MayAnd Woe Unto Them That Are With Child In Those Days
Laurel Thatcher UlrichHaving One’s Cake and Eating It Too
Christine Meaders DurhamUntitled
(author)Untitled
(author)Untitled
(author)Untitled
(author)Untitled
(author)Blessed Damozels: Women in Mormon History
Leonard J. ArringtonI Married a Family
Juanita BrooksFull House
Jaroldeen Asplund EdwardsA Time of Decision
(author)My Personal Rubicon
Eleanor Ricks ColtonMary Fielding Smith: Her Ox Goes Marching On
Lavina Fielding AndersonGetting Unmarried in a Married Church
Marybeth RaynesWomen and Ordination: Introduction to the Biblical Context
Anthony A. HutchinsonWomen and Priesthood
Nadine HansenI smiled wryly at the cartoon on the stationery. The picture showed a woman standing before an all-male ecclesiastical board and asking, “Are you trying to tell me that God is not an equal opportunity…
Mormon Women and the Struggle for Definition
Carol Cornwall MadsenI am sensitive to that steadying hand as I attempt to identify and define what for an earlier generation of women identified and defined them as women—their relationship to the Church.
Untitled
(author)The Pink Dialogue and Beyond
Laurel Thatcher UlrichSome time in June 1970,I invited a few friends to my house to chat about the then emerging women’s movement. If I had known we were about to make history, I would have taken minutes…
A Tribute to May Swenson
Veneta NielsenThe Mormon Woman as Writer
Phyllis BarberRescue from Home: Some Ins and Outs
Linda SillitoeSpeaking Out on Domestic Violence
Anne CastletonTheological Foundations of Patriarchy
Alison WalkerWoman as Healer in the Modern Church
Betina LindseyComforting the Motherless Children: The Alice Louise Reynolds Women’s Forum
Amy L. BentleyThe Good Woman Syndrome
Helen Candland StarkA Strenuous Business: The Achievement of Helen Candland Stark
Lavina Fielding AndersonToward a Feminist Interpretation of Latter-day Scripture
Lynn Matthews AndersonI am astonished that it took so many readings and a focus on the question of using gender-inclusive language in the simplified version to discover something that should have been obvious to me from the…
An Expanded Definition of Priesthood? Some Present and Future Consequences
Margaret WheatleyMormon Women and Priesthood
Nadine HansenOn Being a Mormon Woman
Vicki Stewart Eastman“Dear Brethren” — Claiming a Voice in the Church
Carol Lynn PearsonCarol Lynn Pearson explains ways she has claimed a voice and encouraged others to do so.
Pioneers
Carol Lynn PearsonMidwest Pilgrims: We’re Still Here
Ann Gardner StonePlymouth Rock on the Mississippi
Rebecca ChandlerMy Short Happy Life with Exponent II
Claudia L. BushmanBodies, Babies, and Birth Control
Melissa ProctorIn this paper I will explore official and unofficial messages that theLDS church has sent to girls and women about childbearing during the twentieth century and the effect those messages have had on women’sreproductive choices.
Temporal Love: Singing the Song of Songs
Molly BennionEternal Love
Carrie A. MilesHow My Mission Saved My Membership
Tania Rands LyonWhy I Didn’t Serve a Mission
Mary Ellen RobertsonJunior Companion
Holly WelkerSisterhaters
Teresa P. CarrMissions and the Rhetoric of Male Motivation
Allison G. Stimmler“Not Invite but Welcome”: The History and Impact of Church Policy on Sister Missionaries
Tania Rands LyonPresent at the Beginning: One Woman’s Journey
Barbara Higdon LyonOrdaining Women and the Transformation from Sect to Denomination
William D. RussellOver the past forty years the top leadership of the Community of Christ church (until recently the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ o f Latter -Day Saints) has gone through significant changes in religious thought.…
“Kingdom of Priests”: Priesthood Temple and Women in the Old Testament and in the Restoration
Todd M. ComptonCompton considers priesthood as portrayed in Old Testament texts and how women are underrepresented in today’s discourse.
Saints for All Seasons: Lavina Fielding Anderson and Bernard Shaw’s Joan of Arc
Karen Marguerite MoloneyDoes Justice Rob Mercy? Retribution, Punishment, and Loving our Enemies
Janice M. AllredA Price Far above Rubies versus Eight Cows: What’s a Virtuous Woman Worth?
Holly WelkerMormon Women in the History of Second-Wave Feminism
Laurel Thatcher UlrichReading these books in relation to my own life taught me something I should already have known. Mormon women weren’t passive recipients of the new feminism. We helped to create it.